Dave Barry quotes and words of wisdom

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant"s life, she will choose to save the infant"s life without even considering if there is a man on base."
Found in the topic Baseball.

"Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate."
Found in the topic Masturbation.

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
Found in the topic Maturity.

"Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other"s nerves and regularly erupt into vicious emotional shouting match"
Found in the topic Marriage.

"The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they?re useless. So, for guidance, you want to look to big business. Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes...."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear."
Found in the topic Dog.

"Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world."
Found in the topic Movies.

"Gravity is a contributing factor in 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects."
Found in the topic Accidents.

"I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color, * Or they should at least both be fairly dark."
Found in the topic Clothes.

"Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it?s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."
Found in the topic Golf.

"Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television"s message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath."
Found in the topic Television.

"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant"s life, she will choose to save the infant"s life without even considering there are men on base."
Found in the topic Woe.

"Edison?s greatest achievement came in 1879, when he invented the electric company. Edison?s design was a brilliant adaptation of the simple electrical circuit: the electric company sends electricity through a wire to a customer, then immediately gets the electricity back through another wire, then (this is the brilliant part) sends it right back to the customer again. This means that an electric company can sell a customer the same batch of electricity thousands of times a day and never get caught...the last year any new electricity was generated in the United States was 1937; the electric companies have been merely re-selling it ever since, which is why they have so much free time to apply for rate increases."
Found in the topic Company.

"I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don?t even invite me."
Found in the topic Against.

"American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men?s room and the women?s room without having little pictures on the doors."
Found in the topic Work.

Interesting Quotes

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.Bill Cosby - US comedian & television actor (1937 - )

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.Franklin Delano Roosevelt